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The WGA announced its nominees for outstanding achievement in television, new media, news, radio, and promotional writing during 2016. In the daytime drama category, the writing team of General Hospital received a nomination. DAYTIME DRAMA General Hospital, Writers: Shelly Altman, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Janet Iacobuzio, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Jean Passanante, Dave Rupel, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Chris Van Etten, Christopher Whitesell; ABC. Winners will be honored at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, February 19, 2017, at concurrent ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles. For a complete list of nominations, click here .

General Hospital won in the Daytime Drama category at the 68th annual Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night. The ABC soap opera won for the second year in a row, this year beating one other nominee, The Bold and the Beautiful . GH was nominated for the episode celebrating the soap's 52nd anniversary that aired on April 1, 2015. Current cast members took on past roles to recreate scenes from the show's very first episode that aired on that day in 1963. The winning GH team included: Writers: Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Andrea Archer Compton, Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Elizabeth Page, Jean Passanante, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Chris Van Etten; ABC The ceremony took place simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles. Below is a complete list of winners in other categories:

The Writers Guild of America, West and The Writers Guild of America, East are holding simultaneous awards ceremonies Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York. Lisa Kudrow is hosting the Los Angeles ceremony, while Larry Wilmore hosts the New York event. Below is a complete list of winners: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Grand Budapest Hotel Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight COMEDY / VARIETY (INCLUDING TALK) – SERIES Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , Writers: Kevin Avery, Tim Carvell, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Juli Weiner; HBO VIDEOGAME WRITING The Last of Us: Left Behind , Written by Neil Druckmann; Sony Computer Entertainment DRAMA SERIES True Detective , Written by Nic Pizzolatto; HBO RADIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY “Civil Rights at 50,” Written by Jane Tillman Irvin...

FX Networks statement regarding its decision not to submit Fargo for the WGA Awards: "When the WGA Award nominations were announced this morning, several news outlets commented about the notable omission of FX's award-winning miniseries Fargo . The network initially submitted Fargo in the longform category based on the fact that the 10 one-hour scripts - all written by Noah Hawley - tell a single, close-ended story and therefore Fargo is a miniseries. The WGA does not recognize Fargo as a miniseries because Noah Hawley was accorded a 'Created for Television By' credit and said that Fargo could only be considered in the drama series category. Fargo won the Emmy Award this year for Outstanding Miniseries. It has been submitted as a miniseries for this year's Golden Globe Awards. Since Fargo is not in fact a drama series, and it is in fact a miniseries, FX made the decision not to submit Noah Hawley and his brilliant scripts for WGA Awards consideration."...

The nominees for the 2015 Writers Guild Awards were announced on Thursday in the TV, New Media and Radio categories. Amazon's Transparent led all series with three nominations. HBO's Game of Thrones , Boardwalk Empire , Silicon Valley and True Detective , CBS's The Good Wife , AMC's Mad Men , FX's Louie and ABC's Modern Family grabbed two noms each. In the Daytime Drama category, ABC's General Hospital competes against NBC's Days of our Lives . Below is a complete list of nominees revealed today: TV-NEW MEDIA-RADIO NOMINEES DRAMA SERIES Game of Thrones , Written by David Benioff, Bryan Cogman, George R.R. Martin, D.B. Weiss; HBO The Good Wife , Written by Leonard Dick, Keith Eisner, Matthew Hodgson, Ted Humphrey, Michelle King, Robert King, Erica Shelton Kodish, Matthew Montoya, Luke Schelhaas, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Craig Turk, Julia Wolfe; CBS House of Cards , Written by Bill Cain, Laura Eason, Sam R. Forman, William Kennedy, Ken...